vibe coding starts great; ends poorly

Here is the ugly truth about “vibecoding”:
It looks like magic when people show off simple tasks where the first prompt gets you 99% of the way there. But as soon as complexity increases, it falls apart. The AI fixes one bug and immediately breaks two others. Then it gets stuck in a loop trying to fix its own mess.

_{Quote Citation: streamer85, “Everyone claims AI is replacing devs. But after spending $300 trying to ‘vibecode’ something advanced - my portfolio, I strongly disagree. : r/vibecoding”, 2025-01-16, https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1q5tqhn/everyone_claims_ai_is_replacing_devs_but_after/}